Does Llama Money have speed issues?
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been noticing speed issues when loading up Llama Money. The problems are on and off, and just when I’m about to do something about it, everything starts working fine. So I present the question to my readers – does Llama Money load slow for you?
The reason I ask is this. If you guys are seeing speed problems, then I’ll upgrade my hosting to a Virtual Private Server. Basically it’s almost like having a dedicated box, but without the obscene expense. Still more than the shared hosting that I’m on though. The bottom line is this though – I want you to have a good experience here. If that means I have to drop a little extra coin, then that’s no problem. But if the issues are here on my end only, then I won’t bother.
So how fast does my site load for you?
April 17th, 2008 at 6:08 am
The speed seems okay to me???
April 17th, 2008 at 8:46 am
Good to hear. Maybe it’s just on my side then.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:18 am
Speed seems fine to me, but wordpress is naturally pretty slow when you have more than a few hundred visitors a day. If you haven’t already, try installing the wp-cache or wp-supercache plugin to cut down on sql queries. You should be able to serve thousands of pages a day without any problem on a shared server. Proper caching will probably do more for your speed than upgrading your hosting because the bottle-neck is in the sql queries.
April 17th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I do have wp-cache installed and running. I might look at supercache – I’ve never heard of it before.
Between all my sites that I have running, I’m looking at a few thousand visitors per day. That’s not counting anyone else who is sharing my server.
Anyway I’ll give supercache a try just for good measure and see how things go. Thanks for the feedback.